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February 18, 2021
February 18, 2021 The move to adoption of the second set of Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation (BE2) is underway. The new expectations include three technical requirements aimed at improving security and the user experience that all InCommon Federation participants must meet during 2021: Each Identity Provider and Service Provider will secure its connection…
February 17, 2021
February 17, 2021 “In some ways we can all be glad 2020 is history. Yet circumstances forced organizations to take a hard look at what was done yesterday, how to adapt to the present, and work to stay relevant for tomorrow.” So starts the executive summary of the 2020 InCommon Accomplishments Report, which documents the…
February 17, 2021
February 17, 2021 The National Institutes of Health is moving to require multi-factor authentication (MFA) or two-factor authentication (2FA) for all or most of its services (for our purposes, we’ll lump those together and use MFA). This is significant for any campus or research organization with faculty, researchers, or scientists that interact with NIH. NIH…
